AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3412, 28 January 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

' Tfie‘ of gold lasi 1 Heals hy!no less thaa.67k69soz. th4n'the , itoSUht tflrtlftied gold raised ind tfor. ofhundrs.remSbk following * • - ■ .!

It .WiUtbejseen that; ainoe, 1870 PS h fi bee . n “ rOtrfng ;j ßutfurtherexaminalw this fact m B b^ Was less, there w'ere fewer mememnlftPfed in hridfW who iSE '•gj£{g \ a Ue ' is .httle average eafninoa nn* tipn mafo'inW value 6! each miner’s toihE^; 9 tud|i^‘#L m Srs^teSaS® ssasaSK grow yield is lees, it is so mainly becauet

' Upwards of 2,000 men have left mining fob .<3rftee¥ not because the earnings- from it were ’falling oflMthSa’l-nfcit being ,tbe. , jpoife remuperatiye ormprn durable wort

, In a .recent Hobart Town telegram it was 'stated that there had been a scene at ~: the ‘Tasihanian Presbytery pn ; January the‘ ‘ Motfcury* it appears that when, in the afternoon of the 14tb;ibe minutes .of the morning sederunt were being Rev.* Jokh of Sk Andrew’s, Hobart ToWh,‘ dissented from themon* two pbints"; but the clerk refused to receive or-entefhis reason* fop dissent, oiji the ground that they had nbt taken instanter'faiaft- the dissent-'Was- done in de; tHe ; Presbyttefy.' i' It was also stated that when Mr Storie was-'moderator the • % 'Hmg& /minutes wfcromot signed/by- the* moderator and <derk. the llev. J. Storie replied •^ l * Alwaya-; and I say that there are three 'gentlemen bore who are telling a>disthidt' talsehoodJ' 1 /have-the l evidence here, for>‘l'have the hoofci with the signatures in it.”: Mr asked to produce the* book,/bdt declined‘to ’do so until “the proper-time ;’4 and-in reply to a claim for the book- as the property of the ‘i€httrcHj b r e saidtb'atJbwbought afidWd for ■thßtbodkuht'df 'his own'pocket. iThe clerk l toofc. down the. woids':-^^‘There gentlemen here who are l distinct one fwhfch*^Mr; Storie-added j’MiS’es'y 'aridMteGafdne'r was/oneof the'm. I am ready to prove it at the propertime. I *-«n-not geing/to sit- rquietly'here 'tb-tisten to wild"unconscious statements with untruth at the- bottom dfthem.W'After some further diseussion the minutes were’ 1 put and cony tjbe fuext huaine/ss; preceded ; liji’i firm' £'■>'! ■ ihe mcreaseiin-thp.numberot. lunatics seanrypilfanee in New South Wales has become pOfialptjnipg that the ,of; that <Xqqy glare purchased Ga^ypw^pimaasion^apdiPOjpcre's $ Wi>kppwn tbe ; asylum. jTarlial--d 7 tlm. t ex|wn.ditnrn a .•ijprtwp jxthOvGoyerppmnt j^yu r .®& fccqpqnj; fitoitVPSCpl.iar > -to.ln§ydi^s4. f . i itii iHhWWfi ®f?yof;oP9ess,;-The > (ttop bnilding, flituatfldi on tJ it was i ; £dA t 9!* n , ( lh , pf^hgO r ientalTelogram Agency plated r# jmgke commnnii special asp of wbichlifliOffqj;ed mentioned,in the advertisement, Sentences figures, and thus a great - eost-of- -messages! T|«e ,y Social Gode” is very comprehensive! ifigT an I t?y vimeediiiknd ’ J 4'^P^tnr-^or seen from the follownig has beep ;'i*e jPOpulafcjon * ifhaJini 1 creased'TO *>§3, 0 ..Paring the'same period the quantity of ’I and’Judder cultivation in the quintity’leased from 57,200;000 acres ti J• acres;lltyho pnmber- ofi.horael sprang .«ip .t0.,92.798 ; horned &o%^°%^ 3 7,29G to ;,200„992, and aheei .jKteTTSa .W 00;233,m imw 8e escort, but, in',1872 the c ;quar»tity wap p7s;3^ ( puhces. y Nd.qppper yaliipd > ;.lajb 1 ajb 8, W34i2ih; to 177793,39210. The largest /export-ot wool was in 1869, the quantity being 22,386,6001b ’ . greater in 1867, .althqwfh Mppie, a ft .that in the nuinber bf 'gi WISTa inoroased to 201. \ '’Mr J. ■ Bbrief' pf, hatf;/ really ’ Ibecome ; the a wofader/ ' That proud '*TOHrenb“writes* tb" the,' ‘Sidney*Morning as^foUows little boy&, Vearn 1 of u age; whose smguJa^gifts of eur faibily and a few of d®fl|efoclß tflth fluort* 'time Ogb We~ /feav’e a juvenilp |®ftyf"kt home, and, with - a view to the this little fellow allowed fllmself to bfindfbided, abd'taking a pSck ; of cards With which thby .htod'Wn plk^nb 'ifc&rSfy the 1 ifeach, V,With -the : exacf) nhtnber df ■ spots noon it,and accurately' described 1 the coaft cardd'Of every-suit so-litenllly as to fill evetyene of nswhd it with ■ perfect amakealebtd -Mow than that, Sit" Of coarse these little people demanded to be shown all that h#codld do; and','-taking some marbles oat of the ‘ pOOI/hp told us with wonderful certainty the" OOlor ofeach-one as it was placed betWS£u his l fingersj atid/wheh challenged with playidg a'tfick' tipMf ns, he confessed thal such: was the case; - he . could feel color, Well; 'some/ of thL young folks relating'to their'parentball that thby'hadiaepn’my boy do wasehaturally thio cause of his being iiivited homes, that their parents might: he Satisfied that" Sttdh'ftwHotmaooe'could' take pkee' without resplt of-itheiigthathot only Wa *ted m ro '* * mends, they report'W > mpl (for- 5 not present advantage *of/every means they could think oh to triefc him, but the^ act isTln hi*power features he may have any tolerable ’ ' hy: Iherbly Wuching the l Oarte-deiwsitd, <«h»ostJ4)» certainly. as‘lf he had «p eye'' each of his finger’s ends. Shopld this worthy of a space in your.polumne, I trust that some of your.sqieatifio r s" < KMg« B PO n d e ntS. tpay fbe .able to, ascribe some cause for this apparently extraordinary phel »om«wn,” - :

■nl) iiNj ;-io - •■■''NtfmDer j-. .* * J0f)Minew.. <■, 1868 ... ' 1869, r ' ; ,1870''V.. 1872 ... , .1875 ..'. '-ii . 11— ‘ : - ‘73|479. •< 63.181 ■(.* 68,037 60,W : •' 1 /;,^(1 58,I01 r ’w* 54,651 .>F . S2,54£ . -i-r-r?..—■** u rn^mn , , r 1,367,903 ■ &sm